URANTIA BOOK QUESTIONS - Exploring ignored teachings of the New Revelation. AncientCyprus. Sadler. Urantia Book Historical Society. The Urantia Book: Online Study Edition. 1 - Science, Anthropology and Archaeology in The Urantia Book: Part I. Science, Anthropology and Archaeology in The Urantia Book--Part 1 What is its Significance?
Dr. Ken Glasziou 1. Introduction Expectations The expectations of readers about the content of The Urantia Book are manifold. On page 24 we read: "The existence of God can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction. You're on your own? The book, then, throws us back upon our own resources. A consistent and logical universe philosophy What then can we gain from the science and physical cosmology in The Urantia Book? Even if some of its science is now outdated, there can be no doubt that The Urantia Book provides us with a synthesis of cosmology, philosophy, and the theology of religion that is unequaled in its extent and scope.
What is free will? What constitutes free will? "If we had reason for faith, then it would not be faith at all, it would be logic. Not Inspired? The mandate given to the revelators is outlined on pages 1109-1110. And behold! 2 statements - may fill missing information gaps. Science, Anthropology and Archaeology In The Urantia Book, Part 2 by Ken Glasziou Urantia Book Statements That May Fill Missing Information Gaps The articles presented in this Section appear to come into one of the categories defined on p. 1110 of The Urantia Book by which the Revelators were permitted to eliminate error, restore lost knowledge, fill missing gaps or supply cosmic data to illuminate spiritual teachings.
What Makes Stars Shine? "In those suns which are encircuited in the space-energy channels, solar energy is liberated by various complex nuclear-reaction chains, the most common of which is the hydrogen-carbon-helium reaction. In 1934, when the Paper providing this information about sources of solar energy was received, the detail of the conversion of hydrogen to helium, as postulated by J. The carbon-nitrogen cycle that converts hydrogen to helium with the release of energy is a catalytic reaction in which carbon enters and leaves the reaction apparently unscathed. 1. 2. 3 - Science topics of Interest. Science, Anthropology and Archaeology in The Urantia Book, Part 4 by Dr.
Ken Glasziou Science Topics of Interest in the Urantia Papers The Birth of the Solar System An image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows that newborn stars may emit jets of material as gravitation pulls in gas and dust from a rotating disk. Discussing the origin of the solar system, The Urantia Book states: "As Angona more closely approached the sun, at moments of maximum expansion during solar pulsations, streams of gaseous material were shot out into space as gigantic solar tongues.
The book informs us that this state continued, "for about 500,000 years until Angona made its closest approach; whereupon the sun, in conjunction with one of its periodic internal convulsions, experienced a partial disruption; from opposite sides and simultaneously, enormous volumes of matter were disgorged. " (656) Urantia Older Than the Universe? References 1. Black Holes The telescope is in effect a time machine. 1. 4 - Contentious Material.
Science, Anthropology and Archaeology in The Urantia Book, Part 5 Dr.
Ken Glasziou Contentious Materials There are some much discussed statements in The Urantia Book that have achieved notoriety over a long period. A few of these are presented in this Part. One Hundred Stable Elements "Not every world will show one hundred recognizable elements at the surface, but they are somewhere present, have been present, or are in process of evolution. For proton in the second quotation, read nucleus. Element 101 is mendelevium. What is considered to be an "artificial" process on Orvonton for introducing one hundred and one electrons into an atomic nucleus is unknown to us. Many elements of atomic number greater than 101 have now been produced. 5 - Index of historical and archeological Info. Science, Anthropology and Archaeology in The Urantia Book, Part 6 Dr.
Ken Glasziou An Index of Archaeological and Historical Information found in Part 4 of The Urantia Book Introduction This material is provided both as a matter of interest and to further demonstrate to readers that the Urantia Papers are a work of dedicated scholarship that, besides their theological and spiritual content, provide an enormous amount of information on a range of subjects that includes biblical and historical archaeology. Index [Statements of an archaeological, geographical, or historical nature in Part 4 of the book are indexed by page number. P. 1333. Remarks: Hastings' Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels2, p. 236 states that, though retired from the great highways of commerce, Nazareth was within easy reach, within sight of them.
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